Radio 4 Extra Listings for 31 October – 6 November 2015 Page 1 of 10 SATURDAY 31 OCTOBER 2015 2013. Sonia …. Emma Kennedy SAT 02:30 15 Minute Drama (b01f6b05) Jerry …. Barnaby Kay SAT 00:00 Mind's Eye (b007jyvk) Grazia Deledda - Reeds in the Wind Dave …. Mark Powley Lodgers Episode 10 Nurse ...... Rosie Armstrong Maeve Hamilton runs a busy bed and breakfast in Dublin, but Grazia Deledda's powerful story of love, poverty, honour and Series 3 of the sitcom about a married couple's attempts to only she seems to be able to see the guests. Psychotherapists retribution set in the rugged landscape of 1900's Sardinia. smooth over their singularly troubled midlife funk - Carol is Lorcan and Aoife investigate... Dramatised by Linda Marshall Griffiths from a translation by hormonal and 15-stone George is a transvestite. Onlookers can't Five tales of the paranormal written by Gemma McMullan and Martha King. quite agree on the nature of their dynamic. Gerry Casey. Hearing that Giacinto will marry Grixenda, leaving Noemi free Written by Jan Etherington and Gavin Petrie. CAST: to marry Predu, Efix returns to the village. Will Efix finally be Producer: Elizabeth Freestone Lorcan Molloy …. Dermot Crowley at peace with his conscience? First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2004. Aoife Molloy …. Cathy Belton EFIX.....John Lynch SAT 05:30 Shedtown (b01q03sb) Fergus Rainer …. Mark Lambert NOEMI.....Charlotte Emmerson Series 2 Brian Walsh …. Richard Orr ESTER.....Deborah McAndrew End of the Beginning Maeve Hamilton …. Stella McCusker GIACINTO.....Matthew McNulty In series two of Shedtown, our wooden 'man-cave', icon of Daniel Hamilton …. Miche Doherty PREDU.....Conrad Nelson escape and isolation - the shed - continues to be a symbol of Gillian Power …. Aine McCartney Directed by Nadia Molinari. possibility and change. Director: Eoin O'Callaghan SAT 02:45 Book at Bedtime (b00kb9kv) Episode 3: End of the Beginning Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by BBC Northern Ireland and Colm Toibin - Brooklyn The creosoted community continues into surreal seaside chaos first broadcast in 2006. The Melting Pot as it hits the headlines. SAT 00:30 Soul Music (b00763px) Niamh Cusack reads Colm Toibin's story of duty, love and a Father Michael spots a 'shopportunity' and Colin sees his failed Series 2 girl who moved from the south of Ireland to seek a new life in dream, of running a successful visitor attraction, re-emerging. Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye New York in the 1950s. Barry............................Tony Pitts Anna Blundy, Robert Offord and Colin Murray Parkes reflect As Bartocci's opens its doors to all customers, whatever their Jimmy..........................Stephen Mangan on the impact of Cole Porter's song of farewell and parting. colour, Eilis fights the prejudice of her fellow lodgers. Even at Eleanor.......................Ronni Ancona Series about music that makes the hairs stand up on the back of Father Flood's Irish dance night, not everyone is Irish. Colin..........................Johnny Vegas our necks. SAT 03:00 RK Narayan - The Guide (b007jyp4) Deborah.......................Emma Fryer Producer: Rosie Boulton Railway Raju is famous for helping tourists above and beyond William.......................Adrian Manfredi First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2001. the call of duty – until Rosie arrives. Stars Nitin Ganatra. Diane.........................Rosina Carbone SAT 01:00 Hercule Poirot (b0109byt) R K Narayan ... Author Dave..........................Shaun Dooley Peril at End House Rukhsana Ahmad ... Adaptor Father Michael............James Quinn Episode 5 Nitin Ganatra ... Raju Wes..........................Warren Brown Hercule Poirot summons everyone to End House. Can the Saeed Jaffrey ... Uncle/Barber Margaret....................Gwyneth Powell Belgian sleuth finally unmask the murderer? Shaheen Khan ... Rosie/Meena Nell.............................Eleanor Samson Agatha Christie's whodunit stars John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot Sam Dastor ... Marco Polo Narrator.....................Maxine Peake Hercule Poirot …. John Moffatt Vincent Ebrahim ... Velan/Joseph/Voice 1 Music.......................Paul Heaton & Jonny Lexus Captain Hastings …. Simon Williams Leena Dhingra ... Mother Written and Directed by Tony Pitts Frederica Rice …. Suzanna Hamilton Shiv Grewal ... Gaffur/Superintendent/Voice 2 Produced by Sally Harrison George Challenger …. Andrew Wincott SAT 04:00 The 3rd Degree (b00zdh7m) A Woolyback Production for BBC Radio 4. Nick Buckley …. Gemma Saunders Series 1 SAT 06:00 Christopher Fry - Curtmantle (b06mw116) Mr Croft …. Terence Edmond Reading Can Henry II rule his kingdom wisely and keep faith with his Mrs Croft …. Richenda Carey Coming this week from the University of Reading, host Steve friends like Thomas Becket? Charles Vyse …. Stephen Critchlow Punt quizzes students and lecturers of Food Science & King Henry II was simple and royal, (his nickname of Chief Inspector Japp …. Bryan Pringle Technology, International Relations, and English and American "Curtmantle" derived from the plain short cloak he wore) direct Jimmy Lazarus …. Sean Arnold Literature. and paradoxical, compassionate and hard, a man of intellect, a Dramatist: Michael Bakewell Which is why you're going to find out the meanings of such man of action, God-fearing, superstitious, blasphemous, far- Director: Enyd Williams obscure and outlandish concepts as "interregnum", "Tetrapak", seeing, short-sighted, affectionate, lustful, patient, volcanic, First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2000. "Spationaute", "Myanmar", "Thermidore", "golem" and "Chris humble and over-riding. SAT 01:30 Vital Mental Medicine: Shackleton's Banjo Moyles" It's difficult to think of any facet of man which at some time he (b00wdgr5) "The 3rd Degree" is a funny, lively and dynamic new quiz show didn't demonstrate, except chastity and sloth. As his ship was sinking through the Antarctic pack-ice, Ernest aimed at cultivating the next generation of Radio 4 listeners Starring Brian Cox as Henry II, Bernard Hepton as Becket, Shackleton allowed each member of his expedition to take 2lbs whilst delighting the current ones. It's recorded on location at a Barbara Leigh-Hunt as Eleanor of possessions with them as they abandoned ship. One different University each week, and it pits three and Norman Rodway as William Marshal exception was made; Shackleton saved Leonard Hussey's banjo Undergraduates against three of their Professors in a genuinely Written by Christopher Fry saying, "We must have that banjo. It's vital mental medicine." original and fresh take on an academic quiz. Being a Radio 4 Producer: Jane Morgan So it proved; when Shackleton set off in a small boat to sail to programme, it of course meets the most stringent standards of First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1982. South Georgia to get help, he left behind on Elephant Island academic rigour - but with lots of facts and jokes thrown in for SAT 07:30 Misfits in France (b00f24f8) twenty-two men. They lived for months under an upturned boat good measure. Wilde About Dieppe and some old sails. Every Saturday the banjo-playing Together with host Steve Punt, the show tours the (sometimes Series in which Julian Barnes and Hermione Lee explore the meteorologist mounted a concert. He composed songs and posh, sometimes murky, but always welcoming!) Union connections between a group of Victorian writers and artists whenever they caught a seal to eat brought out his banjo. He buildings, cafés and lecture halls of six universities across the who crossed the English Channel for different reasons. played, the men sang - and anger and depression were kept at UK. Examining the differing fortunes of Oscar Wilde and the bay. The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General painter Walter Sickert, who both flouted Victorian moral Leonard Hussey survived, as did his banjo, now in the National Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the conventions, during their time in the French town of Dieppe. Maritime Museum, its skin marked with a dozen signatures of 'Highbrow & Lowbrow' round cunningly devised to test not At 4am on May 20th 1897, Sebastian Melmoth, better known members of the failed expedition to the South Pole. only the students' knowledge of current affairs, history, as Oscar Wilde, arrived at Dieppe Docks seeking refuge Tim van Eyken is best known as a squeeze-box player and languages and science, but also their Professors' awareness of following his release from Reading Gaol, but he quickly moved singer - he was the Song Man in 'War Horse' at the National television, film, and Lady Gaga... In addition, the Head-to-Head out of town. Theatre. But he also plays the banjo. Tim explores the character rounds, in which students take on their Professors in their own Walter Sickert is known as a Camden Town painter but his of Hussey and the role he and his banjo played in saving the subjects, were particularly lively, and offered plenty of scope painter friend Jaques Emile Blanche called him 'the Canaletto sanity of the explorers. He plays some of his songs - sadly not for mild embarrassment on both sides... of Dieppe'. His long association with the resort began with on Hussey's banjo, which is too fragile, but on his own, made by The resulting show is funny, fresh, and not a little bit surprising, childhood holidays and included an affair with one of the local Pete Stanley, who sheds some light on the original instrument. with a truly varied range of scores, friendly rivalry, and fishwives. Tim also hears from Pieter van der Merwe of the National moments